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CerOrganic (Quality Certified Training of Trainers on Organic Agriculture) is a Multilateral Project financed by the European Commission (EC) with the aim of developping an internationally-recognized Quality Assurance procedure for the vocational education/training of agricultural advisors/trainers, based on the European Quality Assurance Reference Framework (EQARF).
By incorporating existing Organic Agriculture (OA) trainings for young and/or unemployed agricultural experts into an innovative quality-certified training program and developing a quality certification system (for application to other OA training programs), CerOrganic aims to enhance the quality and attractiveness of all OA training systems.
Read more about the CerOrganic project at the CerOrganic web site.
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The CerOrganic Training of Trainers - an exemplary programme
In order to design an exemplary programme providing quality-certified training and to develop and test the Quality Assurance procedure, CerOrganic developed and implemented the CerOrganic Training of Trainers (ToT) Program. This exemplary training in Organic Agriculture (OA) followed international quality standards, specifically chosen for professional training.
The CerOrganic ToT took place from May, 8th to June, 15th 2011, and incorporated a Summer School held at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (MAICh), in Crete, Greece, between 23-28 May 2011.
It consisted of a five-week blended-learning training organized in three phases. The former and the latter phases included distance learning, operated through the designated CerOrganic Course Management Platform, while the central was represented by the one week Summer School held in Crete.
Explore the CerOrganic Training Curriculum and the CerOrganic Tranees' Handbook developed to support the CerOrganic Training of Trainers
The CerOrganic Quality Assurance (QA) approach
The CerOrganic certification scheme consisting of the:
- CerOrganic Quality Assurance Process, with methods, procedures, and benchmarking criteria that were applied for the quality certification of the CerOrganic ToT, and is now available to be applied to other OA training programs.
- CerOrganic Quality Assurance Package with a step-by-step development of a training Program, from its promotion to validation, going through the stages of curriculum development and evaluation. The package can serve as an example of how training Programs, Courses can be developed, implemented and evaluated using the CerOrganic Quality Assurance (QA) Process.
- Open ECBCheck, a new accreditation and quality improvement scheme for eLearning programmes and institutions that can support you and your organization to measure how successful eLearning programmes/courses are and fosters continuous improvement.
The CerOrganic Course Management Platform & Web Portal
CerOrganic Course Management Platform
To enable communication between tutors/trainers and students, cooperation between students and access to coursework information and digital training objects, the CerOrganic Course Management Platform, a multilingual multimedia information system for managing courses, supporting learning processes and learning communities through the Web was used. The platform supports the combination of traditional classroom-based lessons and practical sessions, with self-study and e-learning.
For more support, download the Trainers Platform Handbook and the Trainees Platform Handbook.
- The CerOrganic Web Portal
In addition, the CerOrganic Web Portal is another useful tool. It aims to support the development of innovative ICT-based content, services pedagogies and practice for lifelong learning. The CerOrganic Portal lists, collects, describes and categorizes vocational training content that will help the overall focus of the project to move towards the direction of development and testing a quality assurance procedure for the vocational education/training of agricultural advisors / trainers, based on the European Quality Assurance Reference Framework (EQARF).
